Amazon.com: North By Northwest: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Martin Landau, Leo G. Carroll, Jessie Royce Landis, Alfred Hitchcock: Movies & TV By A Customer on April 22, 2000 Format: VHS Tape One of the best of Hitchcock (although as far as his films go, Hitch probably has the best track record of any director living or dead). This film is basically the original "Fugitive" and follows pretty closely the plot to his "The 39 Steps" from 1935 - a man is mistaken for a CIA agent and is caught in a "deadly game of cat and mouse," as it were. I LOVE the music and the visuals that start out the film - it makes me wish I had been alive to see it in a movie theater in the 50's. And although this film is over 2 hours long, there's no way you can be bored - the suspense is so intense you'll be chewing your nails the whole time (I did the first time I saw it).

Cary Grant is excellent as always, James Mason plays one of the most sinister of Hitchcock's villains (I would LOVE to have this guy's voice) and Eva Marie Saint looks gorgeous and plays her part well. I also enjoyed seeing Martin Landau in an early role as one of James Mason's henchmen and Jessie Royce Landis (the mother from "To Catch a Thief") as Grant's mother (although both were very near the same age at the time). And I love any film score by Bernard Herrmann - this guy should have had a mantle covered with awards, but as luck would have it, most of his scores went not only un-awarded but un-nominated (as this one did). By all means, if you don't own it, pick it up today - and by the way, good job for FINALLY releasing it on DVD, MGM. North by Northwest by Alfred Hitchcock |Alfred Hitchcock, Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason | 883929157853 | DVD | Barnes & Noble® Videos Overview While having lunch at the Plaza Hotel in New York, advertising executive Roger O.

Thornhill ( Cary Grant ) has the bad luck to call for a messenger just as a page goes out for a "George Kaplan." From that moment, Thornhill finds that he has stepped into a nightmare -- he is quietly abducted by a pair of armed men out of the hotel's famous Oak Room and transported to a Long Island estate; there, he is interrogated by a mysterious man ( James Mason ) who, believing that Roger is George Kaplan, demands to know what he knows about his business and how he has come to acquire this knowledge. Roger, who knows nothing about who any of these people are, can do nothing but deny that he is Kaplan or that he knows what they're talking about. Finally, his captors force a bottle of bourbon into Roger and put him behind the wheel of a car on a dangerous downhill stretch. Through sheer luck and the intervention of a police patrol car and its driver ( John Beradino ), Roger survives the ride and evades his captors, and is booked for drunk driving.

He's unable to persuade the court, the county detectives, or even his own mother ( Jesse Royce Landis ) of the truth of his story, however -- Thornhill returns with them to the mansion where he was held, only to find any incriminating evidence cleaned up and to learn that the owner of the house is a diplomat, Lester Townsend ( Philip Ober ), assigned to the United Nations. He backtracks to the hotel to find the room of the real George Kaplan, only to discover that no one at the hotel has ever actually seen the man. With his kidnappers once again pursuing him, Thornhill decides to confront Townsend at the United Nations, only to discover that he knows nothing of the events on Long Island, or his house being occupied -- but before he can learn more, Townsend gets a knife in his back in full view of 50 witnesses who believe that Roger did it.

Now on the run from a murder charge, complete with a photograph of him holding the weapon plastered on the front page of every newspaper in the country, Thornhill tries to escape via train -- there he meets the cooly beautiful Eve Kendall ( Eva Marie Saint ), who twice hides him from the police, once spontaneously and a second time in a more calculated rendezvous in her compartment that gets the two of them together romantically, at least for the night. By the next day, he's off following a clue to a remote rural highway, where he is attacked by an armed crop-dusting plane, one of the most famous scenes in Hitchcock 's entire film output. Thornhill barely survives, but he does manage to learn that his mysterious tormentor/interrogator is named Phillip Vandamm, and that he goes under the cover of being an art dealer and importer/exporter, and that Eve is in bed with him in every sense of the phrase -- or is she? Advertising Editorial Reviews Barnes & Noble - Kryssa Schemmerling Who can forget Cary Grant running through a cornfield, menaced from above by a low-flying crop duster?

Or Grant and Eva Marie Saint clinging to the stone faces of Mount Rushmore in an attempt to elude a nefarious spy played with suave perfection by the great James Mason ? Two of the most visually inventive action scenes ever filmed, they are among the many pleasures to found in North by Northwest one of Hitchcock 's very best films. Grant is Roger Thornhill, a New York adman who sets off a chain of exquisitely convoluted and sinister events when he is mistaken for an undercover agent; Saint brings a soulfulness to her role as the elegant, mysterious blonde who wins his heart. Here the master of suspense blends his signature ingredients -- edge-of-the-seat thrills, comedy, and sophisticated romance -- into a sparkling cinematic cocktail that has been much imitated but never matched. All Movie Guide Equal parts sly identity crisis, suspenseful cross-continental chase, and cool romance, North by Northwest is one of Alfred Hitchcock's most enjoyable films. Done with the irreverent brand of humor that the director made his trademark, the film balances somewhere between suspense thriller and urbane comedy, its considerable wit both complementing and fueling its intrigue.

As memorable for the sexy, sophisticated banter between Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint as for the famous crop-dusting sequence or the climactic chase atop Mount Rushmore, North by Northwest is one of those films that inspires any number of readings. Chock-full of phallic references, conspiracy paranoia, Freudian subtext (made particularly apparent in Thornhill's relationship with his mother, who in reality was played by an actress born the same year as Grant), and featuring a token sinister homosexual, watching the movie is like watching an ode to the forces at work against the single, successful white man in Cold War America. As played by the superb Grant, he's a glib, increasingly befuddled man who perfectly represents the film's breezy yet cautionary tone, a playboy and a mama's boy in one charming yet vaguely troubled package. His true identity, Hitchcock seems to be saying, is as open to question as the one he is forced to assume. For her part, Saint put her stamp on the Icy Sex Goddess role as Eve, allowing just the right measure of vulnerability to melt through the character's freeze-dried exterior. She provided an able foil for Grant, easily matching his personal brand of suave charm with her own.

Their pairing was one of the most delightful in Hitchcock's films, elegant yet with a delicate tinge of frenzy. Elegant frenzy could describe the film as a whole: stylish and taut, North by Northwest is Hitchcock at his gleeful best. North by Northwest (1959) - IMDb IMDb Doctor Strange Confirmed to Appear in ‘Thor: Ragnarok’ 23 hours ago There was an error trying to load your rating for this title. Some parts of this page won't work property. Please reload or try later. X Beta I'm Watching This! Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Error A hapless New York advertising executive is mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies, and is pursued across the country while he looks for a way to survive.

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Director: Alfred Hitchcock A Phoenix secretary embezzles $40,000 from her employer's client, goes on the run, and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother. Director: Alfred Hitchcock An ex-tennis pro carries out a plot to murder his wife. When things go wrong, he improvises a brilliant plan B. Director: Alfred Hitchcock Following the death of a publishing tycoon, news reporters scramble to discover the meaning of his final utterance. Director: Orson Welles A psychotic socialite confronts a pro tennis star with a theory on how two complete strangers can get away with murder - a theory that he plans to implement. Director: Alfred Hitchcock In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications. Director: Michael Curtiz A wealthy San Francisco socialite pursues a potential boyfriend to a small Northern California town that slowly takes a turn for the bizarre when birds of all kinds suddenly begin to attack people. Director: Alfred Hitchcock A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent-film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.

Director: Billy Wilder Two young men strangle their "inferior" classmate, hide his body in their apartment, and invite his friends and family to a dinner party as a means to challenge the "perfection" of their crime. Director: Alfred Hitchcock An insurance representative lets himself be talked into a murder/insurance fraud scheme that arouses an insurance investigator's suspicions. Director: Billy Wilder When two male musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all-female band disguised as women, but further complications set in. Director: Billy Wilder Edit Storyline Madison Avenue advertising man Roger Thornhill finds himself thrust into the world of spies when he is mistaken for a man by the name of George Kaplan. Foreign spy Philip Vandamm and his henchman Leonard try to eliminate him but when Thornhill tries to make sense of the case, he is framed for murder. Now on the run from the police, he manages to board the 20th Century Limited bound for Chicago where he meets a beautiful blond, Eve Kendall, who helps him to evade the authorities. His world is turned upside down yet again when he learns that Eve isn't the innocent bystander he thought she was.

Not all is as it seems however, leading to a dramatic rescue and escape at the top of Mt. Rushmore. Written by garykmcd The Master of Suspense presents a 2000-mile chase across America! See more » Genres: 26 September 1959 (Japan) See more » Also Known As: Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest See more » Filming Locations: Did You Know? Trivia While on location at Mt. Rushmore, Eva Marie Saint discovered that Cary Grant would charge fans 15 cents for an autograph. See more » Goofs In older copies, Thornhill's taxi ride with his secretary is a bit too revealing. At points, you are able to see blue sky above their heads while they're still in the cab. Only their exit from the taxi appears to have been shot using a full-length automobile. This mistake (as well as several others) were apparently fixed when the movie was re-mastered for DVD. See more » Quotes See more » Crazy Credits Right after his credit as director during the opening credits, Alfred Hitchcock is running toward the door of the city bus just as it slams shut on him!

See more » Connections It's a Most Unusual Day (1948) Worth it just to see the the crop duster chase 4 April 2004 | by DarthBill (United States) – See all my reviews I can't quite understand how anyone can dislike Alfred Hitchcock's films. Personally, he's one of the few old school talents I find interesting and watchable, even if his work is dated and set in its era (the era when most sets were hopelessly phony). I guess you have to appreciate his themes - dysfunctional relationships between a man and his mother, flawed by essentially innocent men caught up in a web of intrigue, beautiful blonds, comments of authority figures, black humor, etc - to really appreciate Hitchcock. Interestingly, James Stewart was Hitchcock's original choice for the role of Roger Thornhill, the hapless ad man who is mistaken for a spy who doesn't even exist to begin with and is chased half way across the country by villains and authorities for a murder he didn't commit. For one reason or another, Stewart was unavailable and the part went to Cary Grant instead.

Grant seems better suited to the character and the situation than Stewart would have been, but I can easily picture Stewart being chased in the cornfield by the crop duster. Like all Hitchcock films, there are hundreds of things that aren't realistic though set in the real world and lots of highly improbable stuff going on everywhere, but if you give it a chance you'll enjoy it and won't care. Don't miss Eva Marie Saint having to dub over a then lewd line about love, a full stomach and sex. The use of a crop duster may not be the most practical way to kill a man, but it's a great visual representation of the great Hitchcockian examination of "nowhere to run, nowhere to hide". The music and clinging to Mount Rushmore is also memorable. Did I mention the innuendo? 89 of 130 people found this review helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes North by Northwest by Alfred Hitchcock |Alfred Hitchcock, Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason | 883929052486 | DVD | Barnes & Noble® Videos Overview While having lunch at the Plaza Hotel in New York, advertising executive Roger O.

Thornhill ( Cary Grant ) has the bad luck to call for a messenger just as a page goes out for a "George Kaplan." From that moment, Thornhill finds that he has stepped into a nightmare -- he is quietly abducted by a pair of armed men out of the hotel's famous Oak Room and transported to a Long Island estate; there, he is interrogated by a mysterious man ( James Mason ) who, believing that Roger is George Kaplan, demands to know what he knows about his business and how he has come to acquire this knowledge. Roger, who knows nothing about who any of these people are, can do nothing but deny that he is Kaplan or that he knows what they're talking about. Finally, his captors force a bottle of bourbon into Roger and put him behind the wheel of a car on a dangerous downhill stretch. Through sheer luck and the intervention of a police patrol car and its driver ( John Beradino ), Roger survives the ride and evades his captors, and is booked for drunk driving.

He's unable to persuade the court, the county detectives, or even his own mother ( Jesse Royce Landis ) of the truth of his story, however -- Thornhill returns with them to the mansion where he was held, only to find any incriminating evidence cleaned up and to learn that the owner of the house is a diplomat, Lester Townsend ( Philip Ober ), assigned to the United Nations. He backtracks to the hotel to find the room of the real George Kaplan, only to discover that no one at the hotel has ever actually seen the man. With his kidnappers once again pursuing him, Thornhill decides to confront Townsend at the United Nations, only to discover that he knows nothing of the events on Long Island, or his house being occupied -- but before he can learn more, Townsend gets a knife in his back in full view of 50 witnesses who believe that Roger did it.

Now on the run from a murder charge, complete with a photograph of him holding the weapon plastered on the front page of every newspaper in the country, Thornhill tries to escape via train -- there he meets the cooly beautiful Eve Kendall ( Eva Marie Saint ), who twice hides him from the police, once spontaneously and a second time in a more calculated rendezvous in her compartment that gets the two of them together romantically, at least for the night. By the next day, he's off following a clue to a remote rural highway, where he is attacked by an armed crop-dusting plane, one of the most famous scenes in Hitchcock 's entire film output. Thornhill barely survives, but he does manage to learn that his mysterious tormentor/interrogator is named Phillip Vandamm, and that he goes under the cover of being an art dealer and importer/exporter, and that Eve is in bed with him in every sense of the phrase -- or is she? Advertising Editorial Reviews Barnes & Noble - Kryssa Schemmerling Who can forget Cary Grant running through a cornfield, menaced from above by a low-flying crop duster?

Or Grant and Eva Marie Saint clinging to the stone faces of Mount Rushmore in an attempt to elude a nefarious spy played with suave perfection by the great James Mason ? Two of the most visually inventive action scenes ever filmed, they are among the many pleasures to found in North by Northwest one of Hitchcock 's very best films. Grant is Roger Thornhill, a New York adman who sets off a chain of exquisitely convoluted and sinister events when he is mistaken for an undercover agent; Saint brings a soulfulness to her role as the elegant, mysterious blonde who wins his heart. Here the master of suspense blends his signature ingredients -- edge-of-the-seat thrills, comedy, and sophisticated romance -- into a sparkling cinematic cocktail that has been much imitated but never matched. All Movie Guide Equal parts sly identity crisis, suspenseful cross-continental chase, and cool romance, North by Northwest is one of Alfred Hitchcock's most enjoyable films. Done with the irreverent brand of humor that the director made his trademark, the film balances somewhere between suspense thriller and urbane comedy, its considerable wit both complementing and fueling its intrigue.

As memorable for the sexy, sophisticated banter between Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint as for the famous crop-dusting sequence or the climactic chase atop Mount Rushmore, North by Northwest is one of those films that inspires any number of readings. Chock-full of phallic references, conspiracy paranoia, Freudian subtext (made particularly apparent in Thornhill's relationship with his mother, who in reality was played by an actress born the same year as Grant), and featuring a token sinister homosexual, watching the movie is like watching an ode to the forces at work against the single, successful white man in Cold War America. As played by the superb Grant, he's a glib, increasingly befuddled man who perfectly represents the film's breezy yet cautionary tone, a playboy and a mama's boy in one charming yet vaguely troubled package. His true identity, Hitchcock seems to be saying, is as open to question as the one he is forced to assume. For her part, Saint put her stamp on the Icy Sex Goddess role as Eve, allowing just the right measure of vulnerability to melt through the character's freeze-dried exterior. She provided an able foil for Grant, easily matching his personal brand of suave charm with her own.

Their pairing was one of the most delightful in Hitchcock's films, elegant yet with a delicate tinge of frenzy. Elegant frenzy could describe the film as a whole: stylish and taut, North by Northwest is Hitchcock at his gleeful best. North by Northwest, review: 'magnificent' - Telegraph North by Northwest, review: 'magnificent' Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest is a magnificent thriller, but it's also very funny 5 Comments North by Northwest (1959) was directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint and James Mason. The screenplay was written by Ernest Lehman. Running time: 136 minutes. I must have seen North by Northwest 20 times or more. What is there not to love about this magnificent 1959 thriller? Written by the great Ernest Lehman, it is one of Alfred Hitchcock’s greatest forays into “wrong man” territory, as Cary Grant’s glossy but feckless advertising exec Roger O Thornhill gets mistaken for a spy who does not even exist.

The film’s most famous scene remains Grant being pursued acrosss parched fields by a murderous crop-duster, and the closing set-piece on the face of Mount Rushmore still packs a similar punch. But what you might have forgotten about this film is how very funny it is. There’s a superabundance of sparkling, often marvellously terse one-liners (when asked what the “O” stands for, Thornhill’s resigned and emotionally relevant answer is, “Nothing”) – and, my, how wittily Grant delivers them. Cary Grant in North by Northwest ALAMY And that’s the thing. For all Lehman’s razor-sharp writing, Hitchcock’s expert pacing, Bernard Herrmann’s superb fandango-inspired score, and James Mason and Martin Landau’s silky villains (Landau possibly in love with Mason, and certainly jealous of his affection for Eva Marie Saint’s luxuriant mystery-woman), the film belongs above all to Grant. Besides the constant wit of his delivery, the Bristol-born former circus-tumbler is simply fabulous in his lusty encounters with Saint, convincingly hunted elsewhere, and yet never less than droll even when the chips are down.

He also expertly, subtly reveals how his hollow ad-man (remember that telling middle initial, and for that matter his whole monogram) is gaining in substance as his ordeal continues. And then, there are those two lovely glitches to look out for. A prudishly dubbed Saint telling Grant, “I never discuss love on an empty stomach”, but her mouth saying not “discuss”, but “make”. And that young extra in the Rushmore café, plunging his fingers into his ears in anticipation of a gunshot that no one in the crowd knows is coming. As Telegraph Film Critic Tim Robey says: "Pure pleasure is what Hitchcock came close to achieving with this peerless wrong-man-running chase thriller, one of his most effortlessly entertaining films from any period." Amazon.com: North by Northwest - Special Edition [VHS]: Grant, Saint, Mason, Carroll, Land: Movies & TV North by Northwest - Special Edition [VHS] Rated: Unlimited Streaming with Amazon Prime Start your 30-day free trial to stream thousands of movies & TV shows included with Prime.

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Additional Features This special edition contains a documentary on the making of the film, hosted by costar Eva Marie Saint, that is a perfect prelude to seeing the film again. Included are such inside tidbits as how Hitchcock directed his actors, how the cast and crew produced the gasp-inducing stunts on the face of Mount Rushmore, and how many takes it took for Saint and Cary Grant to get their clinches just right. There's even a small, but very noticeable, gaffe that somehow made it into the final cut of the film. Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought Page 1 of 1 Start over Page 1 of 1 This shopping feature will continue to load items. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. By Hose Knows (aka Jinzo Ningen) on December 6, 2015 Format: Blu-ray|Verified Purchase BOTTOM LINE: This terrific film is Alfred Hitchcock at the absolute pinnacle of his game. And that's saying something! The plot is full of inspiring twists & turns, the action & adventure are over the top, and the film never lets up until the final fade-out.

If you've never seen a Hitchcock film before, this is a great one to get your feet wet with. 5 STAR film, 4 STAR Blu-ray. THE STORY: An unassuming advertising executive is mistaken for an undercover government operative by some very unsavory characters. In less than 24 hours his entire, comfortably predictable routine world completely destroyed and he himself in mortal danger. It will take all of his fast-thinking "baffle them with BS" advertising skills, some stealthy assistance from mysterious double agent, and more than a little luck... if he hopes to stay a step ahead of the ruthless criminals intent on rubbing him out. THOUGHTS (contains minor spoilers): One of my favorite Hitchcock films. Everyone is perfectly cast. Super suave acting legend Cary Grant was never better than here, as delightfully dapper (and rather daft) New York ad exec Roger Thornhill. Eva-Maire Saint is terrific, smart and smoldering; one of the sexiest women to ever cross paths with Grant. Their chemistry is terrific. Leo G.

Carroll is wonderful as the crafty government head honcho who seems indifferent to whether or not the innocent Thornhill will survive the nightmarish web in which he's become entangled. Of course any hero is only as good as his nemesis. Here, the classy, always unflappable James Mason is in top form as the sophisticated traitor who has secrets to sell. A young Martin Landau is disturbingly evil as one of Mason's high-strung, coldly-cunning henchmen. The film takes us from one great set-up to another - including the deservedly legendary crop duster sequence - all culminating in a breathless chase across the presidential faces on Mount Rushmore. It's equal parts tension & fun. A thoroughly entertaining motion picture experience. A masterpiece that is equal parts style & suspense, by one of the medium's true all-time masters. NORTH BY NORTHWEST is a genuine classic that belongs in every movie fan's collection, no doubt about it. THE BLU-RAY: Sadly, I was not as impressed by the remastered Blu-ray as I had hoped to be. Don't misunderstand me.

The remaster is a fine one, but NORTH BY NORTHWEST doesn't look anywhere near as amazing as the recent remaster of Hitchcock's THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY. That film looks absolutely astonishing. NBNW looks good, but not great. There are several excellent bonus features included, which increases the collectability if you're a film buff. Even if you're not, the upgraded picture and improved sound are worth a double-dip if you already own the film in DVD format. By Happy Reader TOP 500 REVIEWER on June 24, 2012 Format: DVD|Verified Purchase Roger O. Thornhill is a busy New York City advertising executive who loves his mother and loves his women. He's having an after-work drink with three buddies when he's abducted at gunpoint. They take him to a mansion in the country, and their boss, Lester Townsend, scrutinizes his captive: "Not what I expected. A little taller. A little more polished than the others." Thornhill replies, "Not that I mind a slight case of abduction now and then, but I have tickets to the theater this evening. To a show I was looking forward to!" And that sets the pace for the whole movie.

Politely sinister. Classy humor. Thornhill is played with panache and great comic touch by Cary Grant. Townsend is played with sly menace by James Mason. The lovely Eva Marie Saint doesn't even appear in the 1st half of the movie, then her Eve Kendall takes over the screen and Thornhill's heart - but it costs her. "North by Northwest" has a couple of the most recognized and parodied scenes in films. The cropduster chasing Cary Grant in the middle of nowhere never loses its fear factor. And who can forget Roger Thornhill and Eve Kendall climbing down Mt. Rushmore? I'm writing this review to let you know that the extras on the 50th Anniversary Edition, 2 DVD's, are simply excellent By TruckeeRon on October 15, 2011 Format: Blu-ray|Verified Purchase A little bit of railroad history was cut from the movie in the BluRay release. I do not know why such a brief scene was deleted except the editor of the BluRay thought something was amiss and jarring.

The New York Central 20th Century Limited had an agreement with the Santa Fe Super Chief to attach a Pullman first class sleeper car from the arriving Super Chief in Chicago and take it in to New York City. Thus the passengers on the Super Chief did not need to transfer with their luggage from Dearborn Station to LaSalle Street Station. The whole car was switched over to the 20th Century. The reverse was true for Super Chief through passengers from NYC to L.A. In the the newly released BluRay version a brief scene which showed the silver Santa Fe car in the middle of the NY Central 20th Century Limited gray consist exiting a tunnel in New York City heading north was deleted. A bit of the original was therefore cut. North by Northwest North by Northwest (1959) Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Script by Ernest Lehman, Score by Bernard Herrmann. Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason (136 min.) Spectators who go to movies lead normal lives. But they go there to see extraordinary things, to see nightmares.

For me, the cinema is not a slice of life but a piece of cake.--Alfred Hitchcock The innocent man wrongly accused + the cool blonde temptress + the heartstopping climax = classic Hitchcock. An advertising executive having a drink at the Plaza Hotel is mistaken for a spy and finds himself running for his life from a crop duster in a deserted Midwestern cornfield and skittering off the giant heads of Mt. Rushmore. "North by Northwest is rightfully acclaimed as Hitchcock's greatest comic thriller" (Paul Condon and Jim Sangster). --I love visiting classic cinema landmarks! To enjoy a tour of the real-life North by Northwest locations in NYC, use code MOVIEDIVA for a 10% discount when booking tickets through .-- * Alfred Hitchcock filmed North by Northwest during one of his most fertile creative periods, in between the obsessive mania of Vertigo and the taboo-shattering Psycho. Now, when Hitchcock is considered to be one of the greatest directors in film history, it's hard to imagine that during his career he was considered to be a purveyor of fluff.

The account in Films in Review was typical, "By this time, it's bromidic to say an Alfred Hitchcock film is wonderful while you're in the theater, and impossible to remember 24 hours later. I wish I could say something more for North by Northwest." Ellen Fitzpatrick was "unable to say anything on its behalf culturally." It took the young French iconoclasts like Francois Truffaut to force serious consideration of his work into the intellectual mainstream. Hitchcock met writer Ernest Lehman during a series of conferences for a picture that was going nowhere, The Wreck of the Mary Deare. Lehman finally told Hitchcock he should find another writer for the project, but was told, "Don't be silly. We get on very well. We'll do something else." Lehman imagined "The Hitchcock picture to end all Hitchcock pictures. I want it to have wit and glamour and movement and changes of locale.' One day he (Hitchcock) said, 'I've always wanted to do a chase across the faces of Mt. Rushmore.' That's what he said. I said, Gee, that's exciting, and wrote it down, but who was chasing whom?

That's the way it all started." The two of them mulled over a series of seemingly disconnected ideas and began to shape a script from them. MGM still thought they were working on The Wreck of the Mary Deare. "How's it going, Skipper?" Lehman was saluted on the lot. Meanwhile, Hitchcock placated the studio by telling them he was doing another picture first, and they thought he would stay for two films. Hitchcock called the plot motivation, in this case a race for government secrets, the McGuffin, and said this film had the most perfect one "the emptiest, the most nonexistent and the most absurd." Lehman embarked on a research trip to embellish his ideas. He loitered around the United Nations and had a Long Island judge go through the motions of busting him for DWI. He followed a Park Ranger up Mt. Rushmore, until he chickened out, handing his guide a camera to snap the top. No fiction film could be shot at the UN, so it was reconstructed in the studio, except for a small scene captured from a hidden camera in the back of a truck. The Park Service wouldn't allow filming on Mt.

Rushmore either, deciding that espionage-related violence was detrimental to the monument's dignity, so that sequence, too, was on a stage. The seven-minute crop duster scene has no dialogue and was edited without the speed often used to increase tension. The slow cuts really let you see what is happening in a blinding bright open field, the opposite of film noir's shadowy alleys. Eva Marie Saint - Biography - IMDb Eva Marie Saint Jump to: Overview (3) | Mini Bio (2) | Spouse (1) | Trivia (26) | Personal Quotes (9) Overview (3) The Helen Hayes of Television Height 5' 4" (1.63 m) Mini Bio (2) Played one of most famous female leads in movie history, opposite Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront (1954). She certainly brought "real acting" in a time when melodrama still ran rampant in the industry. Who can forget her memorable argument scene with Brando when she says, "I didn't say I don't love you, I said I want you to get out." Eva Marie Saint is still going strong with her work.

She takes the fact that she's part of film history in her stride - IMDb Mini Biography By: Brian Michael Tracy <bmtbond007@hotmail.com> Eva Marie Saint is an American actress and producer. She is known for starring in Elia Kazan 's On the Waterfront (1954), for which she won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, and Alfred Hitchcock 's North by Northwest (1959). Her film career also includes roles in Raintree County (1957), Exodus (1960), The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming! (1966), Grand Prix (1966), Nothing in Common (1986), Because of Winn-Dixie (2005), Superman Returns (2006) and Winter's Tale (2014). Saint made her feature film debut in On the Waterfront (1954), starring Marlon Brando and directed by Elia Kazan - a performance for which she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Director Alfred Hitchcock surprised many by choosing Saint over dozens of other candidates for the femme fatale role in what was to become a suspense classic North by Northwest (1959) with Cary Grant and James Mason . Written by Ernest Lehman , the film updated and expanded upon the director's early "wrong man" spy adventures of the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, including The 39 Steps (1935), The Girl Was Young (1937), and Saboteur (1942). North by Northwest (1959) became a box-office hit and an influence on spy films for decades. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Pedro Borges Spouse (1) ( 28 October 1951 - 24 December 2016) (his death) (2 children) Trivia (26) Has campaigned to ban the usage of cell phones by motorists. Lives in Santa Monica, California. Son Darrell was born two days after she won the Oscar for On the Waterfront (1954).

Although the part of Edie Doyle properly is a lead, producer Sam Spiegel listed her as a Supporting Actress in the hopes of getting her a nomination. The ploy worked and she won the Oscar. Got the part of Edie Doyle in On the Waterfront (1954) over Elizabeth Montgomery . Director Elia Kazan , in his autobiography "A Life," says that the choice of an actress to play the part was narrowed down to Montgomery and Saint, but there were also some qualms about Saint playing a teenager, since she was 30 years old at the time. Although Montgomery was fine in her screen test, there was an air of finishing school about her. Kazan thought this genteel quality would not be becoming for Edie, who was raised on the waterfront in Hoboken, New Jersey. He gave the part to Saint, and she went on to win cinematic immortality, and a Best Supporting Actress Oscar, in the part. In 1987, the Eva Marie Saint Theater was dedicated on the campus of Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio. She graduated from the university in 1946. Member of the Delta Gamma sorority.

She studied drama at HB Studio in Greenwich Village in New York City. She and her performance in On the Waterfront (1954) are mentioned in the song "Rattlesnakes" by Lloyd Cole and the Commotions. She was awarded 2 Stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Motion Pictures at 6624 Hollywood Boulevard; and for Television at 6730 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California. According to the 1942 Bethlehem Central High School yearbook, Eva Marie's nickname was "Bubbles" and her ambition was to be a teacher; she was also a cheerleader as well as senior class secretary. She was mentioned in Lucky Number Slevin (2006). Is a staunch liberal Democrat. Is one of 6 actresses to have been pregnant at the time of winning the Academy Award; the others are Patricia Neal , Meryl Streep , Catherine Zeta-Jones , Rachel Weisz and Natalie Portman . Neal is the only to have not accepted her award in person as a result of her pregnancy. Saint was 9 months pregnant with her son Darrell at the time of winning the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for On the Waterfront (1954).

Was the 41st actress to receive an Academy Award; she won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for On the Waterfront (1954) at The 27th Annual Academy Awards (1955) on March 30, 1955. Elia Kazan described her as "Perfect . . . she was just perfect. Everybody loved her--especially me!". Francois Truffaut's "Day for Night" is her favorite film. Grandmother of Tyler (b. March 18, 1985) and Molly Hayden (b. March 9, 1988), via son Darrell, and Eli Beller (b. March 26, 1990), via daughter Laurette. Gave birth to her 1st child at age 30, a son Darrell Hayden on April 1, 1955. Child's father is her husband, Jeffrey Hayden . Gave birth to her 2nd child at age 34, a daughter Laurette Hayden on July 19, 1958. Child's father is her husband, Jeffrey Hayden .

Paternal granddaughter of John Quincy Saint (1847-1927) and Lydia Gordon (1852-1902). Both were born and raised in Indiana. Is one of 13 actresses who won their Best Supporting Actress Oscars in a movie that also won the Best Picture Oscar (she won for On the Waterfront (1954)). The others are Hattie McDaniel for Gone with the Wind (1939), Teresa Wright for Mrs. Miniver (1942), Celeste Holm for Gentleman's Agreement (1947), Mercedes McCambridge for All the King's Men (1949), Donna Reed for From Here to Eternity (1953), Rita Moreno for West Side Story (1961), Meryl Streep for Kramer vs.

Kramer (1979), Juliette Binoche for The English Patient (1996), Judi Dench for Shakespeare in Love (1998), Jennifer Connelly for A Beautiful Mind (2001), Catherine Zeta-Jones for Chicago (2002) and Lupita Nyong'o for 12 Years a Slave (2013). Daughter of John Merle Saint (1891-1965), born in Iowa, and Eva Marie Rice (1896-1987), born in New Jersey. Had an older sister, Adelaide Louise Saint. Son Darrell weighed 8 lbs 8 oz at birth according to the birth announcement printed in the April 11th 1955 issue of Time Magazine in the milestones column. As of 2016 she is the 2nd oldest female recipient of an Academy Award, behind only Olivia de Havilland . Personal Quotes (9) [on Alfred Hitchcock ] Hitchcock said, "I don't want you going back to sink-to-sink movies. You do movies where you wash the dishes looking drab in an apron.

The audience wants to see their leading ladies dressed up". He saw me as others didn't. [on the current crop of movie stars] America is now obsessed by stars in an unhealthy way. They don't actually deserve this kind of attention. They're only actors--not scientists who are triumphing over cancer or doing some other wonderful thing. There were six of us [ Alfred Hitchcock ] blondes, and it's like we were all married to the man at one time or another. And we all have a different take on him. Each actress was at a different stage of her life; we were different ages, some married, some not. My experience with Hitch was one of utter respect, warmth, friendliness and humor, and North by Northwest (1959) was a glorious time in my life. [on James Mason ] I think he's a fine actor, a hell of an actor. A nice person to be with, hard-working and very professional. [on Warren Beatty ] Remote. There was an intelligence about him that I admired. That [ All Fall Down (1962)] was one of his first films, so he wasn't that relaxed. It was hard to get to know him.

[on Cary Grant ] Adorable! A dear man and funny. Probably the most elegant man I've ever worked with--or even met. [on Montgomery Clift ] Very strange, to me. Very shy, really quite unavailable--but very curious. I didn't get to know him at all. He was so painfully shy that it made me shy; however, the shyness didn't exist when we were acting together. [on Bob Hope ] Let's talk about a sense of humor! He was just downright fun to work with. He's a workaholic, which I'm not--I've other interests in my life, but he's only happy when he's performing. He is an American institution. [on Marlon Brando ] I did refer to him once as a hummingbird because you just felt his sensitivity - his sensitivity to life, I guess, and certainly to the other actor and to the material and to the moment at hand. A hummingbird you're in awe of, and you can't really catch it, but every time I see one I wish I could get even closer. And so, Brando, in that sense, is humming with all that sensitivity, and in the beginning in put me off a bit.

It felt like he understood me more than I understood myself, knew more about me than I felt I knew myself. And after a while I just relaxed. And I'd come from the Actors Studio; we all had, so I just relaxed and used that. I've never been intimidated by other actors because I'm' an actor. I'm not in awe, but I certainly have respect for other wonderful actors. People ask me 'weren't you nervous opposite Marlon Brando ?' But no, I was at the Studio, and he was a member and a fine, fine actor. See also 7 Alfred Hitchcock Leading Ladies - Blonde Stars MGM Home Entertainment 2. Ingrid Bergman She once called Hitchcock an "adorable genius," but it was Ingrid Bergman whose beauty and talent lit up the screen in some of the director's most acclaimed films. In Spellbound, she was a psychoanalyst who falls for her new boss ( Gregory Peck ), and learns that he's a troubled amnesiac and possibly even a killer. Notorious starred Bergman as the daughter of a convicted spy, who is tasked by a government agent ( Cary Grant ) to seduce and marry the head of a group of former Nazis relocated to Brazil.

She joined forces with Hitchcock a third time for the lesser-appreciated Under Capricorn, in which she was the alcoholic wife of a prominent businessman and former convict (Joseph Cotten) who took the blame for a murder she committed. Though never Oscar-nominated for her Hitchcock performances, Bergman was widely regarded as his finest leading ladies, with her turn in Notorious ranking as one of the best in her decorated career. Paramount Pictures 3. Grace Kelly Without a doubt the most elegant of Hitchcock's actresses, Grace Kelly broke the mold of the traditional icy blonde in favor of a warmer, more vivacious leading lady. In Dial M for Murder, she was the unfaithful wife of an ex-tennis pro (Ray Milland) who is targeted for murder after her husband discovers her affair with a crime-fiction author (Robert Cummings). That same year Kelly starred opposite James Stewart in one of Hitchcock's greatest films, Rear Window , playing the socialite girlfriend to Stewart's wheelchair-bound photojournalist who plays along with his idea that one of his neighbors killed his wife.

Her third and last film with Hitchcock was 1955's To Catch a Thief , in which she was the target of a copycat burglar mimicking the modus operandi of a notorious, but retired jewel thief (Grant). Though she left acting to become the Princess of Monaco, Kelly's three films with Hitchcock were the highlights of her short career. Universal Pictures 4. Kim Novak Both aloof and sensual, Kim Novak was cast by Hitchcock in Vertigo after original actress, Vera Miles, left due to pregnancy. Novak played the dual role of Judy Barton/Madeleine Elster, who becomes the sole obsession of acrophobic police detective John "Scottie" Ferguson (Stewart). He first becomes infatuated with Madeleine, who herself is obsessed with her own death, after a friend asks him to tail her. When Scottie's vertigo stops him from saving her life, he meets Judy, a dead-ringer for Madeleine whose deeply held secrets causes his world to spin anew. Novak's icy seductive qualities were put to great use and the role defined her for the rest of her career.

The film was a high watermark for the actress, as Novak never managed to reach such heights again. Warner Home Video 5. Eva Marie Saint Though an Oscar-winner for her performance in On the Waterfront, Evan Marie Saint was easily more identified for the role of Eve Kendall in North by Northwest. her only Hitchcock film. She played a seemingly innocent woman on a train who helps Roger Thornhill (Grant), a suave accountant wrongly accused of murder hide from the police. Little does Thornhill know, she's actually working for a shadowy syndicate that would like nothing more than to kill him. But when her own life becomes endangered by the same people, Eve and Thornhill conspire stop a conspiracy involving hidden microfilm. And, of course, they fall in love. While Saint's career was largely cast in the shadow of North by Northwest, she went on to further acclaim and decades later won an Emmy. Universal Pictures 6. Janet Leigh Though only on screen for the first third of the movie, Janet Leigh's appearance in Hitchcock's Psycho was the most famous of his leading ladies, thanks to the now-infamous shower scene.

She played Marion Crane, a secretary who embezzles $40,000 from her employer in order free her lover (John Gavin) from debt. On a drive from Phoenix to California, Marion stops at the isolated Bates Motel, where she meets the repressed Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins). Bates lives at the hotel with his abusive mother, who chastises him for wanting to have an affair with Marion. Meanwhile, Marion resolves to return the money and face the consequences, only to be viciously stabbed in the shower. Though her starring turn was brief, Leigh had the distinction of being in one of the most famous scenes in cinema history. Universal Pictures 7. Tippi Hedren Tippi Hedren was the last of the classic Hitchcock leading ladies and starred in the last of his great films . In The Birds, she was a wealthy young socialite who travels to a seaside California town in pursuit of a new beau (Rod Taylor), only to find herself among the townspeople being pecked to death by swarms of seagulls. She next starred opposite Sean Connery in Marnie, widely considered to be Hitchcock's final masterpiece.

Hedren played a trouble young woman with a penchant for theft, with Connery as her boss-turned-husband who begins digging into her dark past. Hedren was hailed as a promising newcomer thanks to both roles, but spent the rest of her spotty career struggling to gain her due respect.

Question: In Alfred Hitchcock's film 'North By Northwest', which actress was Cary Grant saving from James Mason?
Answer: EVA MARIE SAINT